Obviously I'm a Greg Dulli fan from back in the day. I had seen the Gutter Twins twice already but missed another show a few months after that and a show that was billed to "Greg Dulli and special guest Mark Lanegan" but not actually a Gutter Twins show intrigued me; even if it was a Gutter Twins show, that'd be enough for me. My buddy Trent is one of the reasons I got even more into Greg Dulli's work and he was able to go to the show with me and we'd had a few drinks before, which seemed appropriate in seeing those two (especially since we weren't smoking or high on something else). The two men, playing a spare, acoustic show with a guitarist and a violinist, mixed up the set, predictably playing a number of Gutter Twins tunes, but also stuff from their own personal back catalogs (including stuff originally by the Screaming Trees and an Afghan Whigs number or two, including "Summer's Kiss" -- nice that they did it but never enough for me), some Twilight Singers tunes, and a few covers. Not exactly like their original bands and not precisely the Gutter Twins, but for any fan of either man, it was a delight.
Happy Chichester opened the show, doing an appropriate opener slot of music I didn't remember after I left but not so crappy that felt compelled to get another drink during his set just to have something to do. And credit for playing "Stupid," the only tune I knew by him from his former band, Howlin' Maggie.
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